Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 91

In vain the Brahman pleaded for his life; the most he could gain was a promise to abide by the decision of the first three things he chose to question as to the justice of the tiger's action.

Who acts: Brahman, tiger · What happens: plead, gain, be, abide, choose, question · To what, where: vain Brahman, promise, first three things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahman, tiger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 Brahman	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Brahman	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Brahman	det
4	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pleaded	obl
5	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleaded	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gain	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 most	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 gain	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gain	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 gain	aux
14	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 promise	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 promise	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 promise	det
17	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleaded	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 abide	mark
19	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 promise	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 decision	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 decision	det
22	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 abide	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 things	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 things	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 things	amod
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 things	nummod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 decision	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 chose	nsubj
29	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 things	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 question	mark
31	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 chose	xcomp
32	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	35 justice	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 as	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 justice	det
35	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 question	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 action	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tiger	det
38	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 action	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 tiger	case
40	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 justice	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past			the vain Brahman	for Brahman's life	tree rules
2	gain	could	Brahman				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is a	past		a promise			tree rules
4	abide	to-infinitive				by the decision of the first three things	tree rules
5	choose	past	Brahman	the first three things not said here			tree rules
6	question speech: other	to-infinitive	Brahman not said here			as the justice of the tiger's action	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as justice=Attribute
7	decide			the first three things			nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient
8	act		the tiger				nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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